Responsible Enterprise

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-1-5099-2282-6
Verlag: Hart Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 704 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 168 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 1100 g

This fundamental work analyses the great variety of normative processes encompassed by the term 'Corporate Social Responsibility' (CSR) and subjects them to a systematic and critical examination. Domestic and supranational legislation, international law and transnational private law instruments - supplemented and superseded by soft law and informal steering by private and public organisations - are the 'smart mix' from which a global order for enterprise responsibility is emerging. The author relates these processes to fundamental considerations on the conception of enterprise, the justification and scope of enterprise responsibility and public-private governance. She reveals that the informalization of norm-creation and its transfer to the executive and private actors raises fundamental questions of national sovereignty, democratic legitimation and rule of law. A new conception of 'law' is also required.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Spiesshofer, Birgit

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensorganisation, Corporate Responsibility Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Nachhaltiges Wirtschaften
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of Contents overview
PART A
CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
Chapter 1. Foundations of the Corporate Social Responsibility Discussion

I. Renaissance of historical conceptions

II. Elementary CSR conceptions

Chapter 2. CSR Conceptions of the United Nations

I. Draft UN Code of Conduct on Transnational Corporations

II. UN Global Compact

III. Business and Human Rights

IV. The UN CSR system

V. Summary

Chapter 3. The OECD CSR Conception

I. The OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises

II. The OECD CSR system

III. Summary

Chapter 4. The ISO CSR Conception

I. Guidance on social responsibility ISO 26000:2010

II. The ISO CSR system

III. Summary

Chapter 5. CSR Strategy of the European Union

I. CSR relevant European fundamental and human rights

II. The CSR approaches of the European Union

III. Summary

Chapter 6. National CSR Strategies

I. CSR and national law (transnationalization)

II. National law and extraterritorial issues

III. National jurisdiction for extraterritorial matters

IV. Summary

Chapter 7. Sector-specific CSR Conceptions

I. The mining industry

II. The financial sector

III. The textile industry

IV. The legal profession

V. Summary

Chapter 8. Evaluation of the CSR Discourse and Further Questions

I. Enterprise

II. Responsibility

III. Governance

PART B
RESPONSIBLE ENTERPRISE
Chapter 9. Enterprise

I. The conception of enterprise

II. Group responsibility

Chapter 10. Responsibility

I. Responsibility in the CSR debate

II. Fundamental questions of enterprise responsibility

Chapter 11. Governance

I. Is CSR law?

II. The CSR conception of governance

III. Constitutionalization

Über Autor(innen)

Spiesshofer, Birgit
Birgit Spiesshofer, M.C.J. (New York Univ.) has been working as an attorney at law since 1989 in international law firms, mainly in the areas of public policy and regulation, compliance and CSR. She established the 'gaemo group - corporate responsibility international'. Since 2002, she has served, inter alia, as Chair of the CSR Committees of the International Bar Association, the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe and the German Lawyers Association. She lectures on Business and Human Rights, CSR and international law at the Freie Universität Berlin and the University of Bremen.

Birgit Spiesshofer lectures on Business and Human Rights, CSR and International Law at the Freie Universität Berlin and the University of Bremen and works as an attorney at law in International Law firms.